Samuel Adams Imperial Stout

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Boston, Massachusetts USA

12oz Bottle – 99 Bottles – Federal Way, WA
Aroma: Big dark malt aroma lots of chocolate added.
Appearance: Dark Brown in color, clear with a light head.
Flavor: Dark malt flavor with big roasty and chocolate taste.
Palate: Dry with a smooth chocolate finish.
Overall: Big dark beer this was a fantastic brew.

12 oz. bottle. Aroma of dark chocolate and licorice. Jet black body with light brown head. Taste of chocolate, coffee on the finish. Pretty nice.

12oz bottle. Pours black with fast-fading brown head. Aroma is of weak coffee, cocoa, and maybe some black licorice? Flavor is just okay. Some soy sauce sneaks into the coffee and then pervades for the remainder of the palate. Overall, the body of this beer is thin, with a disappointingly watery mouthfeel. The coffee just doesn’t hang around long enough and the alcohol, though not obnoxious, is present enough to make this overall less than really pleasant. I’d not go back for too much more of this.

Bottle. Pours black with a one finger brown head. Aroma was roasted malts, chocolate, cocoa and had notes of molasses. Flavor was moderately sweet with dark chocolate, molasses, roasted malts, coffee and finishes dry and roasted

It smells like an imperial stout, it looks like an imperial stout, but doesn’t taste like a top-notch imperial. samuel’s imperial stout is not offensive, but it doesn’t hide the alcohol sting that a premium imperial should. In general, Samuel Adams’ reputation is waning these days with the inability to keep producing new and innovative craft beers that taste better than their ever-increasing craft market competiton. This particular beer is an example of trying to rush out a product to compete against a popular style of beer. Samuel Adams is playing catch up and they are not executing like I feel they used to--even a decade or so ago. Perhaps a bit of a rant, but needed to express my feelings why I pass up Samuel Adams--most of the time--for beer that is better in the same price range. Great Lakes comes to mind.

Decent sized dark brown head of fine bubbles. Rich, sweet and malty aroma with lots of dark chocolate, dark ripe fruit, sweet cream and some roasted malts. Color is a very dark crimson black. Lots of roasted grains, bitter chocolate, a hint of coffee and some anise. Moderate bitterness. Finishes a tad dry, sweet and strong roastyness. An ok impy.

Deep dark brown. Not the best stout I’ve had, but certainly good. Chocolate, espresso and cream flavor. Aroma fits the taste. It’s not that sweet and not even that bitter - that probably means that it doesn’t stand out. Well-balanced but it isn’t stand-out. High in alcohol content.

Very standard. But in a good way i guess. Aroma of espresso, cream, anise, and cigar. Flavour is exactly the same as the aroma, but sadly ends on metallic note, which really kind of kills the experience for me. Unsweetened chocolate in the finish. A pretty standard imperial stout, would probably buy again if I saw it around.